The choice of pre-treatments for Bouvardia is being enlarged on 1 May 2017

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On 1 May 2017, there will be a change in the product specification for Bouvardia. The choice of pre-treatments for Bouvardia is being enlarged.

The Knowledge Centre conducted a study in the past year on behalf of the manufacturer Vaselife International to examine whether it is reasonable to add the product Vase Life Universal Hydrate 100 Clear Post Harvest (code 100 on the product’s label) to the product specification of Bouvardia. The study revealed that all criteria have been met for adding this product to the mandatory products in the product specification of Bouvardia.

Change:

  • From 1 May 2017, Vase Life Universal Hydrate 100 Clear Post Harvest (code 100 on the product’s label) will be added as an authorised product for pre-treatment for Bouvardia (already listed products remain authorised together with this new one).
  • You must state the correct code of the pre-treatment product in your supply information. With this code the laboratory can check that the pre-treatment product is being used correctly.
    • The grading code S65 pre-treatment must be added from today at position 6 in your EDF software package.
    • For grading code S65 you must select the correct pre-treatment product by using code 100 on the product’s label = Vase Life Universal Hydrate 100 Clear Post Harvest.

      This product should be administered according to the instructions for use.

Product group no. Name GC 1 GC 2 GC 3 GC 4 GC 5 GC 6
1 01 026 00 Bouvardia S20 S05 S65
    Mandatory Mandatory Pre-treatment

information code

S20 = Minimum stem length
S05 = Maturity stage
S65 = Pre-treatment

You can find the latest product specification on www.vbn.nl

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact:

Royal FloraHolland Laboratory
T 0174-632637 or 0174-632610
E laboratorium@royalfloraholland.com

The laboratory staff are available daily from 08:00 to 13:00. If you were not able to reach them at those times, please send them an e-mail.

Grading code S05 (maturity stage) is added to Salix (Deco green) from 1 June 2017

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Increasingly often, buyers are finding it important to know the maturity stage of Salix. To fulfil this request, we want to make supplying this information mandatory as an official quality code. This we will do in two steps.

The grading code S05 (maturity stage) is recommended from March 1, 2017 and mandatory from June 1, 2017 at Salix.

The grading codes for Salix (Group 107 013 01) are as follows from 1 June 2017:

Position Code Description Prescription
1 S20 Minimum stem length Mandatory
2 S33 Age grade timber Mandatory
3 S05 Stage of maturity Mandatory

In order to fill in the right codes for maturity, we made ripeness photos. These can be found on the website of the VBN.

You can examine all the grading codes using the link below: Grading codes for cut flowers

You must add the grading code S05 at position 3 in your EAB software package.

Grading code S05 (Maturity stage) mandatory by a number of Perennials from 1 March 2017

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Increasingly often, buyers are finding it important to know the maturity stage of perennials. To fulfil this request, we want to make supplying this information mandatory as an official quality code. This proposal has been accepted by the VBN Regulations Steering Group.

For the product groups listed below, the grading code S05 (stage of maturity) becomes mandatory from 1 March 2017 at position 4. Use of this code has been recommended for some time now.

Product group no. Product group name S05 Position Mandatory
310017 Aster Position 4 Mandatory
310015 Campanula Position 4 Mandatory
310021 Gentiana Position 4 Mandatory
310053 Helleborus Position 4 Mandatory
310121 Leucathemum Position 4 Mandatory
310007 Phlox Position 4 Mandatory
310141 Platycodon Position 4 Mandatory
310042 Rudbeckia Position 4 Mandatory
310010 Saxifraga Position 4 Mandatory

The link below contains a list of the quality codes
Quality codes